Sign of Dyslexia? Muddling yesterday and today

[janpa]

My 4 year old DD has Developmental Verbal Dyslexia, which you wouldn't know now, due the wonderful NHS giving her weekly S< (I do know how lucky we are ). One thing which goes hand-in-hand with DVD is dyslexia. We're going for yearly optician appoinments where they do a tracking test to see if she is likely to be dyslexia, because, like with the DVD, if she has it I would like an early diagnosis so I can put in place what will best help her. I have no reason to suspect she has got it, other than her complete failure to recognise any numbers, which isn't uncommon at her age BUT she completely reverses yesterday and tomorrow. It's often with comical results but it did get me wonderinf if this could be a sign of dyslexia. I don't want to sound paranoid about this, so sorry if I do.

Bizarre - S< was typed in as S< . Sorry for any confusion.

It's done it again! Speech and Language Therapy. Please someone write something - otherwise it looks like I'm talking to myself!

Thank you. I work in a nursery andf none of the children there do it, which added to my wondering.

It can be - dd doesn't understand days of the week or how far away (in time) things are. I'm not an expert but I see it as all part of that kind of disorganised thing she does. (Also not knowing left from right).

janpa
Not sure of the terminology being used here.
Developmental Dyslexia is about having problems with the graphic symbols used to represent speech
Alexia is acquired dyslexia caused by brain injury, stroke, dementia or a progressive illness which is when you begin to loose or have lost your ability to read.
Developmental Dyslexia has three Cognitive Subtypes:- Auditory, Visual, Attentional, or some combination of the three.

So what is Developmental Verbal Dyslexia, or is this another invention of some uniformed professional.

When DD was developing in my womb, some of the nerological paths didn't meet up (I think I'm telliing you correctly) which meant that the speech patterns that children learn, e.g. by babbling & experimenting with, she didn't. She had to be taught every single speech sound - all consonents and vowels. There are 3 forms of dyspraxia - motor (most commonly known), verbal (her one) and oral. With verbal, there is a strong link with dyslexia. The speech therapy made those neuroligical links that didn't develop naturally.

Hi my son is dyslexic and was slow to speak, had speech therapy, although they said he basically knew all the tricks just had word finding difficulties. Any getting days mixed up was 1 of the questions asked to him at 7 and he did get them mixed then.
Earlier symptoms he had, and all children are different, were he would hate to be read too he would sit and pretend to listen but after 2 pages he would jump up and say that's enough. Couldn't remember nursery rhyme. You know when they learn to read you're reading to them and you stop for them to finish the line because you've read it to them dozens of times, they're suppose to jump in with the word- he couldn't remember it ever.
On th up side he couuls do maths cd roms 6-8 at 4.06 yrs learnt himself chess with lego chess same age.
Keep watching

Hi japna. So did you mean developmental verbal dyspraxia, rather than developmental verbal dyslexia in your original post? I think that's what's confusing people.

Oh my goodness, I have no idea what was going on when I typed that! I did mean developmental verbal dyspraxia. Sorry for confusing anyone.